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...barbaric American custom of drinking water with meals washed up to the House of Commons last week. Craggy, grey-haired M.P. Eleanor Rathbone and American-born Lady Astor protested that U.S. soldiers were being denied water by British waiters (who, like all European waiters, spring from a line of camels and believe it is sacrilege to mix water and food at the same time). U.S. soldiers, said M.P. Eleanor, were being forced to order mineral waters and beer with their meals. The Government pondered the case, passed it off lightly by noting that British beer is now so watered down...
WASHINGTON--Plans of the War Relocation Authority to facilitate transfer of American-born Japanese from western relocation centers to eastern farms, homes and industry were disclosed tonight...
...Eliot, noted American-born writer of verse, and four other former holders of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, have expressed tribute to President Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, in a letter received from England, the University, announced last night...
Biggest blockbuster to land near Congresswoman Luce came from Britain's acrid, American-born Lady Astor (who six months ago bluntly stated her own view of Britain's self-interest as opposed to Russia): "I was horrified . . . appalled . . . shocked. . . . Clare Luce's 'globaloney' is too smart for me. It's like a very stylish and ridiculous hat. . . . Mrs. Luce does not know what the war is about. . . . People who start out to be sensational usually don't last long...
...reporter. For the New York Press she covered "Gyp the Blood." For the World she did "stunt" stories, including being hugged by a New York gorilla, being forcibly fed in order to tell what it felt like. For McCall's Magazine she went (o Europe, interviewed the American-born Duchess of Marlborough in her fabulous Blenheim Palace. Said the Duchess: "This may be a palace, but there isn't one decent bathroom in the whole bloody place...